Update on WWE’s negotiations to buy Ring Of Honor

By Amish Patel -
April 14, 2017

According to a report from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there are still talks between the WWE and Ring Of Honor (ROH) to purchase old ROH content for the WWE Network. Dave Meltzer also stated that talks for WWE to buyout ROH completely “are considered dead.”

For some time now ROH COO Joe Koff had been denying rumors of a potential buyout, recently telling The Baltimore Sunthat it’s ‘not a story’:

“It was not a story,” Koff said. “It was not a story when it came out. I think people want to make a story out of nothing. I’m very open in conversations with very many different wrestling promotions. And I think sometimes because I don’t share a lot of stuff, we’re very private about what we do. I think it raises speculation. I think this thing with the WWE really started because we were in conversations about content for Kevin Owens’ DVD. There was a lot of back and forth between the two companies. I think that was the seed that drove that story.”